Title: 'Development' mode for plugins?
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# 'Development' mode for plugins?

 *  Resolved [benallfree](https://wordpress.org/support/users/benallfree/)
 * (@benallfree)
 * [13 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/development-mode-for-plugins/)
 * Hello, I noticed that dpa_maybe_update_extensions() only adds actions to the 
   taxonomy on the 1st install. Are there any recommendations for putting Achievements
   in “plugin development mode” so I can develop my plugin without continually changing
   its ID or version #?
 * [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/achievements/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/achievements/)

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 *  Plugin Author [Paul Wong-Gibbs](https://wordpress.org/support/users/djpaul/)
 * (@djpaul)
 * [13 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/development-mode-for-plugins/#post-3495830)
 * Hey,
 * Super cool to hear your diving into the code, even without any documentation 
   guide. Let me know how you get on! 🙂
 * This is an interesting idea for a future improvement, but there’s no neat way
   right now. Maybe filter the function that returns the version and set it to a
   constant more conveniently defined inside your plugin?
 *  Thread Starter [benallfree](https://wordpress.org/support/users/benallfree/)
 * (@benallfree)
 * [13 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/development-mode-for-plugins/#post-3495859)
 * That might work. The snag seems to be that actions only get added to the taxonomy
   on the 1st time a plugin is recognized. So $version[$id] needs to continually
   change to make it look like a new plugin. But that’s clearly not best to keep
   changing $id and thus leaving a bunch of old unused taxonomies around.
 * I’ll see if I can modify this section to use a “development” mode where the taxonomy
   is cleared and refreshed each time with the new set of actions.

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 * Last reply from: [benallfree](https://wordpress.org/support/users/benallfree/)
 * Last activity: [13 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/development-mode-for-plugins/#post-3495859)
 * Status: resolved